On Wed, 20 Nov 1996, John Anonymous MacDonald wrote:
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 07:33:51 -0800 From: John Anonymous MacDonald <nobody@cypherpunks.ca> To: cypherpunks@toad.com Subject: Re: Rogue Governments Issuing Policy Tokens
"Timothy C. May" <tcmay@got.net> writes:
I mention Libya as an extreme example (the same example cited in the Fiat-Shamir "is-a-person" example of rogue governments issuing passports). The examples above are likely targets for policy card exports, though. The issue is clear: the list of "fully-compliant" nations is short indeed, and few nations are going to accept imports of U.S. technology in which the U.S. government sets the policy on how and where the imports may be used.
Most "dual-use" items are export-restricted to Lybia. That means US businesses will have trouble selling any computers or even things like trucks to Lybia. For crypto tokens not to be available there does not seem to be a huge deal, in comparison with everything else.
You've obviously never been to or heard of Brussels. -- Forward complaints to : European Association of Envelope Manufactures Finger for Public Key Gutenbergstrasse 21;Postfach;CH-3001;Bern Vote Monarchist Switzerland